8 PKOCEBDINGS OF THE 



The Resolution was carried unanimously, the Fellows rising in 

 their places. 



The President then announced that a vacancy existed in the 

 List of Foreign Members by the recent death oi" Dr. Jean Baptiste 

 Edouard JJornet, F.M.li.tS., and that two vacancies had arisen 

 in the List of Associates, by the death of Mr. Oswald Arthur 

 8ayce, and the election as Fellow of Sir Frederick William 

 Moore, M.A. 



Miss liuth Mary Cardew, the Eev. Hilderic Friend, and 

 Miss Elsie Maud Wakefield, were admitted Fellows. 



Sir James M'Crone Douie, K.C.S.L, Mr. John William Haigh 

 Johnson, E.Sc, and Miss Beatrice Lindsay, were elected Fellows. 



The Rev, Hilderic Feiend, F.L.S., then read his paper, en- 

 titled " Some Annelids of the Thames A^alley," which w as discussed 

 by Prof. A. Dendy, Sec.L.S., and the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing; the 

 author briefly replying. 



Mr. W. C. WoRSDELL, F.L.S., then gave a lantern exhibition 

 of a series of slides, show ing abnormalities in fungi, and explained 

 his views on the causes which produce them. Prof. F. O. Bower, 

 Prof. D. T. MacDougal (visitor), the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 

 Prof. A. Dendy, Sec.L.S., Dr. Stai)f, Sec.L.S., Miss E. M. Wake- 

 field, Miss E. N. 'i'liomas, and the President joined in a discussion, 

 and the exhibitor replied. 



Dr. A. B. Rkndle, F.R.S., F.L.S., showed specimens obtained 

 in 1911, of the dissected leaf-form of Horseradish, Cochlearia 

 Armoracia ; in his absence, the following statement was read for 

 him by the General Secretary : — 



" It is not suggested that the dissected form of leaf of Horse- 

 radish is new ; it will be familiar to many Fellows. The leaf- 

 tissue between the veins is undeveloped to a greater or less degree, 

 and a more or less cut form of leaf results. 1 should like to ask 

 whether this form has been more generally noticed during the 

 past remarkably sunny summer. It might be suggested that it is 

 a response to an increased amount of sunlight or diminution of 

 water-supply. The specimen w hich I am sliowing came from a 

 dry field, about a njile from the sea, at Bognor, in which a number 

 of the ])lants were growing here and there, and nearly all of them 

 showed the phenomenon in a greater or less degree. I noticed 

 the same dissected leaf-form in other places this summer. 



" Miss Ida M . Roper, F.L.S., has sent a specimen from Somerset, 

 and her letter may be worth reading to the Fellows." 



The letter, dated the 20th December, was accordingly read. 



Dr. Stajjf then referred to one or two points suggested by the 

 specimens. 



